Might & Magic Heroes VI

It's split into several different parts. Think... Total War series type movement around a map, during battle it's a turn based grid-system similar to Final Fantasy Tactics and then it has city management similar to... I guess Civ?

What have you played?

I mean Generally its a game where you get cities, which produce daily income, and every week you recruit troops, and you get leaders to lead those troops (leaders don't fight, they just provide bonuses to the troops and cast spells if they have mana)

and well, the object is to defeat the enemy and take all his cities.

During the steam sale I purchased king's bounty, the legend or something. Combat is not dissimiliar to king's bounty apparently. Watch a youtube video.

but its about abusing random tactics to make stuff die in large numbers.

you have several races with different units from the cities, and there are various bonus buildings on the map that, provide bonuses.

MINES: important for hiring troops and building buildings in town, mostly for building stuff you need resources that aren't just gold. Troops mostly need just gold.

Creature huts: every week they get a week's supply of units (no castle bonus) and they provide +1 growth in cities than have similiar huts. very broken when you have a few of the top tier units huts and a few cities producing them.

One hut and one city is 2 extra units, but 3 huts and 3 cities is 12 extra units see? and 12 spare (+6 regular growth with a castle) of any top tier unit a week is probably enough to cream anything.

HoMM 5 incorporated more ...interesting race mechanics and skill sets.

It gave each race a recruit mechanic I guess you'd call it. where you take a leader of the right race and have him lead his troops and he can recruit them better.

Haven: He's got training, which means he can take the junky lower tier trash units that would die, and upgrade them to higher tier units.

Necropolis: Pairs really well with haven. Haven knight goes and upgrades footmen to Monks, and moves them over to the necropolis, and you make lots of liches. Necropolis has other units, but Pretty sure money wise, several stacks of lich are impressive. The necromancer himself has a necromancy ability that allows him to raise defeated foes in some amount per week, useful more early game. getting skeletons and upgrading them to archers.

Light Elves, just a brokenly good race. Honestly I never play them anymore, aside from needing wood badly, they are extremely broken.

Dark Elves, seems slightly weak, but its a nuking with spells race, so the units are arbitrary, just to keep the mage alive long enough to do his work.

Demons: Gating.. its sorta weaksauce, so they suck.

Academy: Human Mages, gets an artificer ability to make its units like twice as good as normal.

Dwarvens: added with expansion, defensive race, but with runes of charge they are basically very fast melee units with lots of tanking ability, which ruins alot of people's days.

Orcs: Odd race, the slave pits allow you to sell units for a profit if you can't afford to raise them, which is nice. a large orc horde can have its hero do its number in damage as a warcry, and damage to the army is reduced with rage. so its interesting, not sure if its balanced, but they get alot of offense.
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Thanks for the info mate.

I owned 3 complete edition from GOG, HoMM pack from steam which contains 5 with expansions, 6, Clash of heroes and dark messiah.

I know dark messiah is not HoMM and clash of heroes is a spin off. I gave 3 a try and I must say it was great. I sort of played 3 for a bit while downloading the HoMM pack from STEAM. I got beaten by my opponents since I don't know how to recruit armies and all.

Last set of question and just to clarify something. Is the gameplay or the premise of the game similar in 3,5,6 but (obviously) new mechanics and whatnot is added in 5 and 6?

Is 4 worth getting or I made a good decision getting 3? (Probably going to get 4 sooner or later but a bit reluctant in getting 1 and 2 since I have problems running games as old as master of magic/ master of orion on my laptop)
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Thanks mate! I've been playing HoMM 3 for a couple of hours and I have to admit I am hooked and never regret getting into the series. Gonna give 5 and 6 a go once I clear out the campaign.of 3.

Now I understand why the feel of the game is so familiar. Its like MtG and man I missed the good old days of MtG.

My thoughts about the series. HoMM3 is great and I don't mind the old graphics but it feels appropriate for the game. I mean I feel scared of the demons of HoMM3 compared to the demons of 4 and 5. The explosion animation of 3 reminds me when something explodes in south park.

I will never regret purchasing and getting into the series. Gonna buy 4 later and give it a go
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I always go to Dragonsreach to discuss the ongoing Hoshtilities like the rest of the great warriors